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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If… Our Buses Were Mobile Gardens

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Marco Castro Cosio of NYU has a mobile vision for urban green spaces…

“If we grew a garden on the roof of every one of the 4,500 buses in the MTA bus fleet, we would have 35 acres of new rolling green space in the city.”

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